Hegar

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Temperature sensitivity feels like it should distinct⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There are several more. My favourite is proprioception - the sense of where your limbs are. Phantom limb syndrome exists because we have proprioception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨coleoptera master race⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This was just a top notch meme. Informative and a very clever arrested developement reference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess i don't really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge's potato? ("I just think they're neat")

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was careful to say perminant heirarchies for that reason. Bao Jingyan said that power originates in the contrast between the weak and the strong, and the cunning and the naive. I'm inclined to agree.

  But we can have social institutions that break up and flush out these natural channels of inequality, rather than institutions that metastize them into heirarchies.

  Aristotle discussed a then-current idea to redistribute all personal wealth above 5x the poorest citizen. We could tax all inheritance above say 500k at 100%. Eliminate all personal debt every 7 years.

  There's a lot we can do to make heirarchies more temporary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are lots of ways to organize people that aren't heirarchical, or that dilute or limit power rather than concentrating it.

  Directly voting for laws, appointing officials by sortition - like being picked for jury duty, pushing decisions down to neighbourhood councils, consensus decision making, a culture that always permits insulting the successful and plenty else has been suggested.

  It all comes with drawbacks of it's own, of course. And having grown up in a heirarchical society, it can be very hard to imagine anything else, until you read about all the times and places where people have organized themselves differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There's a lot of neuroscience showing that social power suppresses empathy in the brain. Status, privilege, wealth, etc. make almost everyone less able to consider the pain of others.

  Most of us can be reasonable with people we know. But the socially powerful are making most of the important higher-scale decisions, and they are neurologically the least capable of making good decisions on behalf of others.

  Or that's how i see the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While i too yearn for the downfall of capitalism, pre-capitalist societies were still responsible for environmental distruction, slavery and genocide.

  As long as individuals or a small elite have enough power to enforce their needs over the needs of everyone else, we'll always have capital-b Badnesses.

  We have to usher in the collapse of perminant heirarchies, whatever form they take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the real poverty line is $140,000, this strategist argues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another point he makes is that the safety net does catch people at the very bottom, but traps anyone who climbs out. For instance, at $45,000, they lose Medicaid eligibility; at $65,000, childcare subsidies vanish.
  “In option terms, the government has sold a call option to the poor, but they’ve rigged the gamma. As you move ‘closer to the money’ (self-sufficiency), the delta collapses. For every dollar of effort you put in, the system confiscates 70 to 100 cents,” he says. “No rational trader would take that trade. Yet we wonder why labor force participation lags. It’s not a mystery. It’s math.”

  What? How does the system take 70-100 cents of every dollar of effort put in by low income people? Medicaid and childcare subsidies going away isn't 70-100% of the income of a household earning 65k.

  Obviously losing medicaid or childcare subsidies is a huge blow for anyone, but i don't understand where he's pulling 70-100% of the value of someone's labour from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TBH it's a really good deal.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of head leaves you thinking afterwards, "i would pay for that to have not happened. But i'd only pay $4"?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TBH it's a really good deal.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of head leaves you thinking afterwards, "i would pay $4 for that to have not happened"?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That house looks sweet! Cool tree right there, plenty of nature, even a ramp. My appartment is less ada compliant than that.

  Also this post is some middle class bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scurvy ain't nothing to fuck with⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scurvy ain't nothing to fuck with⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wu Tang means "sugar free" in chinese so there are a lot of products labelled as wu tang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans BY DEFAULT do not want to commit violence towards other humans, otherwise things like Killer's Remorse and PTSD would not exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Empathy is a trait that almost all individuals of many mammal species possess. Lethal intra-species violence is also a behaviour observed in many (all, i'd guess) of those same species.

  Individuals, their peers, their social networks, their identities, institutions and the specific situation all influence behaviour. When those line up one way, we do a murder. A different configuration and we do a cuddle.

  It makes no sense to suggest that humans are either inherently good or bad - those are artificial concepts that don't even have a fixed meaning within a single human identity group. At the end of the day we're just organisms exhibit behaviours to meet needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archaeologists Discover the World's Oldest Paintings—Made Long Before Humans Existed, and Eerily Sophisticated⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All humans alive today carry neanderthal dna, meaning we all have neanderthal ancestors.

  I believe the current understanding is that sapiens and neanderthals were like lions and tigers - we are able to produce viable offspring, but not always and maybe only with a neanderthal father, not mother.

  We are a different branch from a common ancestor but they are also our ancestors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archaeologists Discover the World's Oldest Paintings—Made Long Before Humans Existed, and Eerily Sophisticated⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anatomically, for sure, but cognitively and behaviourally it's harder to prove.

  For example did early homo have grammar? Many think the expansion of erectus, esp. over water, implies complex language but that's hardly certain and there's a lot of homo before erectus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archaeologists Discover the World's Oldest Paintings—Made Long Before Humans Existed, and Eerily Sophisticated⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Garbage clickbait headline 😮‍💨.

  "Some time before sapiens seems to have expanded into this particular area" is not at all the same as "long before humans existed".

  Neanderthals are literally our ancestors, they have everything we think of as human.

  There was a now debunked idea that symbolic thought emerged in europe ~40kya. The explosion of symbolic art we see then is in part because of preservation factors and how well studied europe is.

  It's fairly well established that non-sapiens humans were capable of symbolic thought. No one is surprised that neanderthals made cool art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any correlation would likely be related to socio-economic status ie class. Macs were always more expensive, that's going to skew wealthier, which has way more impact on developement and learning than which OS you used as a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The catholic church would absolutely use sainthood to whitewash the legacy of a rapist, but i'm sure that position has plenty of promising internal candidates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Male Fantasies (by Nhim)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh last time i helped my father dig a hole it was basically rocks held together with clay. Shovels are a joke, the only thing that works is a stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  born out of Israel’s concerns that data it moves into the global corporations’ cloud platforms could end up in the hands of foreign law enforcement authorities

  Nothing says criminal regime quite like being terrified that others will found out what you're doing.

  Israel demanded that if amazon or google comply with any requests from law enforcement, they send israel a secret payment equal to 1000 times the country's international dialing code in shekels.

  A clause of "You have to tip us off if anyone is investigating our crimes", makes it clear that israel is intentionally committing crimes and google and amazon agreed to be their accomplices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most popular conspiracy theories?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favourite atm is that kirk's wife had him killed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most popular conspiracy theories?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In reality, an open elite controls world governments and economies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wrecked 'em 💀⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the pink square is the giveaway

  Good to know! The last time i read viz was decades ago.

  Also that bird one is just hilarious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wrecked 'em 💀⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This has to be from Viz, right? It reads like a Viz line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biased source⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dino Grandino? No, that's too obvious. Hmm. I know!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich idiot says dumb shit is not news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans are social mammals. In many important respects, it makes no sense to even think of us as individuals.

  I suspect that in the past people with higher levels of social anxiety probably just spoke a little less than average, and noticably less on the much less frequent times they met strangers.

  But i think it's its probably very inaccurate to imagine anyone who we'd recognize as an "introvert" in the much more collectivist cultures that dominate history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You never missed anything important⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We're social mammals and we will always spend large amounts of time engaging in social behaviour.

  It maintains relationships, strengthens bonds, makes it easier to obtain aid, helps reinforce our positions within our identity groups, etc. etc.

  Even when the words being shared are complete nonsense, conversing is never nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manic Stew⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of coordination baked potatoes.

  My favourite actual horse name is pretty close. I think it was from the 1800s: Potoooooooo